- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): modern
Moments. Our lives are a collection of moments. Some utterly painful and full of yesterday’s hurts. Some beautifully hopeful and full of tomorrow’s promises. I’ve had many moments in my lifetime, moments that changed me, challenged me. Moments that...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1952, French Indochina. Since her mother’s death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk...
- Location(s): Deya (Deià)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Lucy is on assignment. A wild, reclusive writer awaits her. She wants his life story. He wants her everything. A whirlwind romance takes them to the highs and lows of Deià. But beneath them lie the bodies of a...
- Location(s): China, Central Asia, Europe
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
‘Immensely entertaining … so ambitious, so detailed, so fascinating’ The Times For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west – in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out...
- Location(s): Rome, Salò, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1970s
It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
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- Location(s): Jerez
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 13th century
Adventure, intrigue and self-discovery in 13th century Spain, as our heroes come of age; fighting bandits, falling in love and, perhaps most difficult of all, coping with their families. The long-awaited sequel to ‘Reconquista’ (long listed 2016 Children’s Book...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970
It is 1970 in a small town in California. “Bean” Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Post WW2
The classic tale of a journey through war-torn Europe. Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War Two, Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope. As...
- Location(s): County Clare, Dublin
- Genre(s): Magical Realism, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Leah Howland is a survivor. And a deserter. After three numbing years, she has forsaken her husband and escaped to mythical Ireland where a stalker leaves her calling cards that are eerie and increasingly gruesome. Shadowed by the legend...
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